ASP.NET Core 8 and Angular - Sixth Edition

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Real-Time Updates with SignalR

In this chapter, we’ll talk about ASP.NET Core SignalR, an open-source library that allows us to add real-time functionality to web applications by enabling server-side code to push content to clients instantly.

Such a requirement might have little or no use in most general-purpose apps, including the WorldCities app we’ve been working on since Chapter 5, Data Model with Entity Framework Core; however, it can be very useful for some specific scenarios, such as:

• Online games, especially if they need to support multiple players acting simultaneously in a common or shared environment
• Social networks, assuming they need some kind of notification system
• Collaborative apps such as blogs, CMSes, whiteboards, team ...